Fareed Zakaria sat down with Iran’s acting Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani at Hudson Yards in New York and pressed him on CNN’s reporting on an alleged Iranian assassination plot against former President Donald Trump.
The reporting stemmed from US authorities obtaining intelligence on the alleged plot from a human source in recent weeks, a development that led to the Secret Service increasing security around the former president in recent weeks, multiple people briefed on the matter told CNN.
The Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations denied the accusation.
During his interview, Zakaria asked Kani if the plot was in retaliation for the assassination of Qasem Soleimani, the senior Iranian general who died in January 2020, which took place during the Trump administration.
“I told you explicitly that we would resort to legal and judicial procedures and frameworks at the domestic level and international level in order to bring the perpetrators and military advisers of General Soleimani’s assassination to justice,” Kani said.
Pressed further if that meant not using violent measures, Kani said, “We will only resort to Iranian and international legal and judicial procedures.”
“Until now, we have done it, and this is our right and of course we will continue it. And the Americans openly said that, that they assassinated the senior Iranian military commander. So it is our natural right in order to follow this issue, and those who are accused in this case, they should be brought to justice in a — in a just court,” Kani said.
Zakaria’s full interview with Kani will air on Sunday at 10 a.m. ET on “Fareed Zakaria GPS.”
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